English for Everyone Illustrated English Dictionary

Reference

Time

1. What time is it?
2. It's three o'clock.
3. one o'clock
4. five past one
5. ten past one
6. quarter past one
7. twenty past one
8. twenty-five past one
9. one thirty / half past one
10. twenty-five to two
11. twenty to two
12. quarter to two
13. ten to two
14. five to two
15. two o'clock
16. second
17. minute
18. quarter of an hour
19. twenty minutes
20. half an hour
21. forty minutes
22. an hour
23. now
24. early
25. on time
26. late
27. later
28. hourly
29. always
30. never
31. second hand
32. minute hand
33. clock
34. hour hand

PARTS OF THE DAY

1. dawn
2. sunrise
3. morning
4. midday
5. afternoon

The calendar

1. day
2. week
3. two weeks/fortnight(UK)
4. weekend
5. month
6. year
7. decade
8. century
9. millennium
10. Monday
11. Tuesday
12. Wednesday
13. Thursday
14. Friday
15. Saturday
16. Sunday
17. January
18. February
19. March
20. April
21. May
22. June
23. July
24. August
25. September
26. October
27. November
28. December
29. nineteen hundred
30. nineteen-oh-one
31. nineteen ten
32. two thousand
33. two thousand and one
34. twenty-thirty-three
35. once a week
36. twice a week
37. three times a week
38. every day
39. every other day
40. only weekends
41. hourly
42. daily
43. weekly
44. monthly
45. spring
46. new leaves
47. summer
48. green foliage
49. fall (US) / autumn (UK)
50. leaf fall
51. winter
52. bare branches

Numbers

1. one
2. two
3. three
4. four
5. five
6. six
7. seven
8. eight
9. nine
10. ten
11. eleven
12. twelve
13. thirteen
14. fourteen
15. fifteen
16. sixteen
17. seventeen
18. eighteen
19. nineteen
20. twenty
21. twenty-one
22. twenty-two
23. thirty
24. forty
25. fifty
26. sixty
27. seventy
28. eighty
29. ninety
30. one hundred
31. zero

ORDINAL NUMBERS

1. first
2. second
3. third
4. fourth
5. fifth
6. sixth
7. seventh
8. eighth
9. ninth
10. tenth
11. twentieth
12. twenty-first

LARGE NUMBERS

1. two hundred: 200
2. two hundred and fifty: 250
3. five hundred: 500
4. seven hundred and fifty: 750
5. one thousand: 1,000
6. one thousand two hundred: 1,200
7. ten thousand: 10,000
8. one hundred thousand: 100,000
9. one million: 1,000,000
10. five million: 5,000,000
11. five hundred million / half a billion: 500,000,000
12. one billion: 1,000,000,000
13. three thousand, eight hundred and forty-six: 3,000 + 800 + 46 = 3,846
14. eighty-two thousand and forty-three: 82,043
15. two hundred and thirty-four thousand, four hundred and seven: 234,407
16. three million, eighty-nine thousand, three hundred and forty-two: 3,089,342

FRACTIONS,DECIMALS,AND PERCENTAGES

1. an eighth: 1/8
2. a quarter: 1/4
3. a third: 1/3
4. a half: 1/2
5. three-fifths: 3/5
6. seven-eighths: 7/8
7. zero(US)/nought(UK) point five
8. one point seven
9. three point nine seven: 3.97
10. one percent: 1%
11. ninety-nine percent: 99%
12. one hundred percent: 100%